Tag: Firestorm

On Monday 17th December the Firestorm Team announced the long-awaited Firestorm Animesh update (v6.0.1.56538). The new Animesh feature in Firestorm is a public beta currently. The full Animesh supported Firestorm release will be coming in early 2019.

This new viewer release 6.0.1 is now fully merged to the 6.0.0 Linden code-base. There are plenty of changes, bug fixes, improvements in this latest release. See the full change log below.

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The Firestorm team have announced that there will be a three-hour dance party happening today from 2pm SLT until 5pm SLT from many live performers in Second Life. The party will take place over at the Firestorm regions (SLURLs below). Jessica Lyon will be there along with many other Firestorm team members.

Here are the live performers scheduled for today..

2pm – 3pm – Savannah Rain

3pm – 4pm – Max Kleene

4pm – 5pm – Annette Seranade

Arrive early as the regions will fill up quickly. Apparently there might be a surprise at the end of the party.

This latest update brings the Firestorm Viewer right up to date with the Lab’s 5.0.9 code base. The new version comes with many new features, performance updates and tons of fixes. This is the first significant update so far this year with planned quarterly releases throughout 2018.

Main Highlights

The Asset-HTTP Project

This feature moves fetching of several types of assets to HTTP. This means that landmarks, wearables (system layer clothing and body parts), sounds, gestures and animations will now be fetched the same way as textures, mesh and avatar baking information via a direct query to a CDN (Content Delivery Network) instead of through the simulator. This should generally make loading of such content both faster and more reliable.

Group Ability “Always allow ‘create landmark”

The “Always allow ‘create landmark`” group ability was accidentally removed a while ago.Always allow ‘create landmark` enabled on a group role allows members of that role to override the teleport routing (e.g. right click → teleport to) on the parcel if a landing point is set, as long as Direct Teleport is enabled on the region.

Group Ability “Always allow ‘create landmark”

The “Always allow ‘create landmark`” group ability was accidentally removed a while ago.Always allow ‘create landmark` enabled on a group role allows members of that role to override the teleport routing (e.g. right click → teleport to) on the parcel if a landing point is set, as long as Direct Teleport is enabled on the region.

Windows & Mac versions now have Havok support

As a result of the work that the Lab have done on their Alex Ivy 64-bit project, we are now able to bring you the long-anticipated, Havok-enabled 64-bit Firestorm, once again restoring all the functionality of the 32-bit viewer but keeping the stability and speed of the 64-bit viewer.

What’s new in this update ?

* Updated to LL codebase 5.0.9, which includes, among other things:

– The Asset-Http Project
This feature moves fetching of several types of assets to HTTP.

– Fixes for avatar physics bugging out at very low or very high FPS
A long awaited fix to have you wiggling and jiggling at your very best.

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On 8th August Firestorm released a new update viewer (4.7.9.50527) which brings it up to date with the Linden Lab viewer release 4.0.6 codebase with many long-awaited features and bug fixes. The Firestorm team mentioned in the blog post that this is the first release where you won’t need to perform a clean install of the Firestorm viewer.

The big news is that this new release comes with new rendering complexity controls (JellyDolls) that lets you prevent expensive avatars from lagging you in Second Life. Also custom graphics presets and the http project has been added to this latest release. Yay! 🙂

Here are some of the highlights from this new update release and it’s worth checking out the release notes page for a complete list of the changes.

Linden Lab-Specific Highlights

Fully merged up to Linden Lab’s current release 4.0.6 codebase plus some cherry-picked fixes from upstream. Version 4.7.9 includes the following new features from the Linden Lab viewer:

Quick Graphics — custom graphics presets. The Quick Graphics feature lets you save optimal graphics presets for all different occasions and quickly switch between them using a new top-bar pulldown.

The HTTP Project — a complete replacement of the under-the-hood HTTP infrastructure. They provide improved performance and stability, resulting in fewer problems with high-volume operations like loading inventory.